Film (2014)
Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky
Screenplay by
Frank Cottrell Boyce
and Andy Paterson
Based on a book by Eric Lomax
With Jeremy Irvine, Colin Firth,
Stellan Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman,
Tanroh Ishida, Hiroyuki Sanada
A moving, well-crafted film about a British soldier, confined in a Japanese prison camp during World War II, who decades later returns to the site of his internment.
Finding Vivian Maier
Film (2013)
Written and directed by
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A moving, fascinating and beautifully crafted documentary about a lifelong nanny who, completely unrecognized during her lifetime, turned out to have been a first-rate art photographer.
Becoming Cuba
Play (2014)
by Melinda Lopez
Directed by M. Bevin O’Gara
Huntington Theatre Company
Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts, South End, Boston, MA
March 28 – May 3, 2014
A period piece set at the turn of the twentieth century in Cuba, with the Spanish-American War looming.
Under The Skin
Film (2013)
Directed by Jonathan Glazer
Starring Scarlett Johansson
Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA
A long, quiet, dreary exploration of seductively supranormal appropriation, with a protagonist who teeters near the edge of human feeling.
Watermark
Film (2013)
Directed by Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky
A beautifully photographed documentary about water, in its various forms and locales, that travels as widely and loosely as its subject-matter.